Both Adrian College and Siena Heights University are reporting high enrollment numbers as students settle into the 2013 fall academic season.

Adrian College is now home to more than 530 new students, officials there said, the seventh consecutive year the entering class has exceeded the 500-student mark. The college’s total fall enrollment stands at 1,613. Last year, 1,755 students signed up for fall classes, with 650 of them freshmen.

Across town, Siena Heights University recently welcomed the largest freshman class in the institution’s history. A total of 311 full-time freshmen began classes Aug. 26 on the Adrian campus, according to SHU Vice President of Enrollment Management George Wolf.

Erin VanDerworp, director for admissions at Adrian College, said the incoming class has the largest number on record of freshmen with an ACT composite score of 25 or higher and the college’s largest number of incoming students who were the valedictorian of their respective high schools.

The incoming class is also diverse in its demographics, VanDerworp said, with students coming from four countries, five provinces and 23 states.

Frank Hribar, vice president for enrollment and student affairs at Adrian College, said in a statement the staff is to be credited for its recruitment efforts.

“The staff was challenged to continue to increase the academic standards of the entering class profile and they delivered,” Hribar said. This is the best academic class in many years.”

Welcome Week festivities there kicked off Aug. 18, with new students moving in on campus. Classes began on Aug. 26.

At SHU, there were 1,005 full-time undergraduate students on the Adrian campus, also the largest number in the past 20 to 25 years.

With 30 percent of those students incoming freshmen, Wolf said, the university is encouraged by the statistics.

“The largest freshman class in the university’s history is further evidence that Siena Heights continues to develop itself as a highly valued college choice,” Wolf said in a statement.

The university also experienced record enrollment this fall in its degree completion centers, with locations in Battle Creek, Benton Harbor, Jackson, Lansing, Monroe, Southfield and online.

SHU President Sister Peg Albert said one of the priorities when she took the position in 2006 was to have 1,000 full-time students on the Adrian campus.

“I am thrilled to see that goal reached, as well as all the other exciting things that have been accomplished over the past several years,” Albert said.

SHU also recently opened its $9.1 million McLaughlin University Center on Aug. 1. The new student and community facility houses the university’s dining service, a snack shop featuring Starbucks coffee and the Barnes & Noble college bookstore.